Scan the World

Scan the world

Scan the world project is absolute honor to be involved in . To be one of the vary few to hold a piece of art that had only existed in a museums or in an inaccessible location to a lot of the worlds population. These are some of Prints that Edmonton 3D Prints has completed for the Scan the World Project.

Widespread ignorance about Africa made it easier for Europeans to spread ideas about the inferiority of African culture and civilisation. This beautiful item from the Benin and Yoruba kingdoms show that superb craftsmanshit and metalworking existed before the time of European intervention. Over 900 bronze busts sit in museums across Europe and America. They were taken during a British punitive expedition that burned and looted the ancient city of Benin in 1897. The historican racism towards Africans is compounded by ignorance of the cultural achievements of Africa and its people. But some of the most valued items in our museums are galleries provide examples of the sophistication of African arts and material culture. Is it not time that the richness of African cultural history was acknowledged and received its long-overdue recognition? The slave trade damanged African societies and allowed European nations to deny their coherence and impose European rule. This contributed to the assault on African identities. From the early 1600s onwards London merchants were importing increasing amounts of gold and ivory from Africa. Yet little was really known about Africa or its people. Some knowledge came from the wriitngs of Portuguese travellers in the 1500s, but often these mixed truth and fantasy. Legens of fabulous cities and gold mines hidden in the heart of Africa and mythical tales of strange people replaced real knowledge. This, in turn, lead to a dismissal of African cultures. As Africa became the principal source for slaves for the new world of the Americas, ignorance fed racism which, in turn, was used to justify brutal exploitation. 'Is it not strange to think, that they who ought to be considered as the most learned and civilized people in the world, that they should carry on a traffic of the most barbarous cruely and injustice, and that many... are become so dissolute as to think slavery, robbery and murder no crime?' - Ottobah Cugoano, Narrative of the Enslavement of a Native of Africa, 1787 https://www.myminifactory.com/object/head-of-a-yoruba-man-at-the-british-museum-london-20911

This scan originates from Oliver Laric's initiative 'threedscans'. It is part of an ongoing project by Laric, titled 'Versions', which deals with historical and contemporary ideas relating to image hierarchies. Every model produced by Laric is free to be downloaded and used without copyright restrictions. https://www.myminifactory.com/object/sphinx-at-the-schlossgarten-belvedere-21431

Widespread ignorance about Africa made it easier for Europeans to spread ideas about the inferiority of African culture and civilisation. This beautiful item from the Benin and Yoruba kingdoms show that superb craftsmanshit and metalworking existed before the time of European intervention. Over 900 bronze busts sit in museums across Europe and America. They were taken during a British punitive expedition that burned and looted the ancient city of Benin in 1897. The historican racism towards Africans is compounded by ignorance of the cultural achievements of Africa and its people. But some of the most valued items in our museums are galleries provide examples of the sophistication of African arts and material culture. Is it not time that the richness of African cultural history was acknowledged and received its long-overdue recognition? https://www.myminifactory.com/object/head-of-a-yoruba-king-at-the-london-docklands-london-20910

UK/RAINE: Emerging Artists from the UK And Ukraine is the first ever open competition for all emerging artists from the UK and Ukraine aged 18-35. The aim of the competition is to find and support the most imaginative and talented young artists, including students on BA and MA courses who are living and working in the UK or Ukraine or born in either country. The competition received over 10,000 entries by 2,100 artists and the 30 sortlisted artists were chosen from each of the five categories: installation, new media, painting, sculpture and street art by a panel of internationally renowned judges. UK/RAINE continues the collaboration between the Firtash Foundation and Saatchi Gallery as part of the Days of Ukraine in the UK festival. This object is part of "Scan The World". Scan the World is a non-profit initiative introduced by MyMiniFactory, through which we are creating a digital archive of fully 3D printable sculptures, artworks and landmarks from across the globe for the public to access for free. https://www.myminifactory.com/object/181-kilometers-at-the-saatchi-gallery-london-20912

Accessibility

source for the following information. Being such a cheap means of producing accurate representations of artifacts, Scan the World offers to break down the walls of the art institution to allow the visually impaired to engage with culture. Traditionally the museum will enforce the rule of ‘don’t touch the artwork’ which means it is very difficult for the visually impaired to get anything from the museum.

For someone living in Australia wanting to explore the collection of the Rodin Museum but cannot afford to travel. The virtual archive allows people to ‘visit’ a museum’s collection, print and engage with it; similarly for someone who has visited a particular museum they can create their own ‘postcard’ of their visit.

For someone who wants to preserve their culture digitally, with the accessibility of cost-effective new technologies it’s possible for anyone to scan and share their culture with the world.

New technologies—and initiatives like "Scan the World"—are helping us to preserve and access culture by Martin Roth / June 14, 2016